A61F 2002/0882
Anchor in or on top of a bone tunnel, i.e. a hole
Official title: {Anchor in or on top of a bone tunnel, i.e. a hole running through the entire bone}
A61F2002/0882 (Anchor in or on top of a bone tunnel, i.e. a hole) appears on 880 US grants and 920 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 880
- Published applications
- 920
- Assignees
- 237
- Inventors
- 1,009
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 15 | 27 |
| 2003 | 32 | 30 |
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| 2024 | 23 | 21 |
| 2025 | 29 | 39 |
| 2026 | 17 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Soft anchors for anatomical fixation, and related systems and methods29 Sep 2026US 12,746,000 B2Medos International Sarl
- Patient-specific soft tissue rearrangement22 Sep 2026US 12,740,830 B2Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.
- Device for surgical reconstruction of a cruciate ligament8 Sep 2026US 12,727,989 B2Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
- Suture anchors with one-way locking mechanisms18 Aug 2026US 12,708,359 B2Arthrex, Inc.
- Tissue repair devices and methods of use11 Aug 2026US 12,702,400 B2Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
- Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283780 A1Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.
- Backstop loader13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232309 A1Conmed Corporation
- Method and apparatus for forming a self-locking adjustable loop23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207188 A1Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC
- Knee-surgery system, knee-surgery robot, and techniques for computer-guided knee repair and/or knee reconstruction16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198938 A14-Bar Precision Sport Medicine LLC
- Rupturing tool and rupturing system with bilaterally articulated rupturing element9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191538 A1Abanza Tecnomed, S.L.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ligament bone anchor and method for its use1,096US 5,702,397 AMedicineLodge, Inc. · 1997
- Method for anchoring suture to bone977US 5,046,513 AMitek Surgical Products, Inc. · 1991
- Ligament anchor system838US 4,870,957 A1989
- Suture anchor728US 4,898,156 AMitek Surgical Products, Inc. · 1990
- Bone fastener726US 5,725,529 AInnovasive Devices, Inc. · 1998